Post by robincragin on Oct 27, 2015 17:11:56 GMT -5
Samhain is a magical energy tide that unites your personal process, your individual energy system, with the universal. Each of the sabbath offers us opportunities to shift our consciousness from personal concerns to those that are universal collective and archetypal. They offer us the chance to move from an ordinary to a mythic mindset.
For best results with this guided imagery, have someone else read the text out loud to you while you meditate. Or you might create an audio recording in your own voice that you can play back later.
Reader
Lie down. Cross your arms in the Osiris Position (the crone/sage magical pass). Close your eyes and take several deep breaths. Focus attention on your breath. Follow the trail of your breath down into your chest. Now trail it down even further, into your solar plexus. Feel the life that this breath gives your body. Sense the energies of your body as they manifest in your chest and abdomen. Allow this awareness to spread, feeling the inner body’s energy, its vibration downward to your pelvis and upward to your neck and shoulders. Now spread this awareness of energy further to include your arms and legs. Now include your hands and feet. Now feel it in your neck and head.
Hold this awareness of your whole body vibrating with the energies of life. Imagine now that you feel a hand that very gently touches, even caresses your own hands. Visually follow the length of the hand, arm, shoulder, neck, and face of the figure that touches you. Is this figure male or female?
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
What is this figure wearing?
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
This figure is death — your death. Ask this figure to tell you the lesson it holds for you.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
Now ask how you might best and most powerfully live your life.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
After you hear the response, ask any other question you might have.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
Once you receive your answers, it is time to return to the waking world. Bid this death-figure farewell and it will vanish from your vision. Now it is time to return to your physical body. Feel your awareness filling your physical senses and then slowly stretch your arms and legs. Open your eyes.
When you feel that you are fully present, take time to journal about what it was you saw in your magical journey. How did death tell you to conduct your life? Be sure to live as closely as possible to death’s advice.
For best results with this guided imagery, have someone else read the text out loud to you while you meditate. Or you might create an audio recording in your own voice that you can play back later.
Reader
Lie down. Cross your arms in the Osiris Position (the crone/sage magical pass). Close your eyes and take several deep breaths. Focus attention on your breath. Follow the trail of your breath down into your chest. Now trail it down even further, into your solar plexus. Feel the life that this breath gives your body. Sense the energies of your body as they manifest in your chest and abdomen. Allow this awareness to spread, feeling the inner body’s energy, its vibration downward to your pelvis and upward to your neck and shoulders. Now spread this awareness of energy further to include your arms and legs. Now include your hands and feet. Now feel it in your neck and head.
Hold this awareness of your whole body vibrating with the energies of life. Imagine now that you feel a hand that very gently touches, even caresses your own hands. Visually follow the length of the hand, arm, shoulder, neck, and face of the figure that touches you. Is this figure male or female?
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
What is this figure wearing?
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
This figure is death — your death. Ask this figure to tell you the lesson it holds for you.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
Now ask how you might best and most powerfully live your life.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
After you hear the response, ask any other question you might have.
(Reader: pause for a moment.)
Once you receive your answers, it is time to return to the waking world. Bid this death-figure farewell and it will vanish from your vision. Now it is time to return to your physical body. Feel your awareness filling your physical senses and then slowly stretch your arms and legs. Open your eyes.
When you feel that you are fully present, take time to journal about what it was you saw in your magical journey. How did death tell you to conduct your life? Be sure to live as closely as possible to death’s advice.